Bottom reached, ‘turning point’ in sight?
decline to 1.5 billion units in 2009, Europe: (10% of total staff).
down 6.2% from 1.6 billion units in • Electronic equipment manufacturing BreconRidge received AS9100 aerospace
2008. —iSuppli orders decreased 3.2% in Europe in registration.
• Netbook shipments (mini-notebook December. —Eurostat Briton EMS became an EMS partner for
PCs) are expected to grow to 26.32 • EMEA printer, copier, and multifunc- Link Research.
million units in 2009, taking a 17.2% tional (combined) product market Catalyst Manufacturing received ‘The
share in the overall notebook PC mar- shipments declined 8.4% Y/Y to 48.2 Business Champions award’ for its contri-
ket. —Displaybank million units in 2008. —Gartner butions to the Raleigh, North Carolina,
• Netbooks shipments reached 14.6 mil- India: Triangle-area workforce.
lion units in 2008 and are expected to • PC market shipments reached 2.268 Celestica laid-off 110 in Rajecko, Czech
reach 17.2% of notebook-PC market in million units in 3Q’08. —IDC India Republic, and 80 in Galway, Ireland.
2009. —Displaybank • Electronic hardware manufacturing Cicor Technologies implemented short-
• Server market declined 14.0% y/y to hitUS $155B by 2015. —Frost and time working in its EMS division.
toUS $13.5 billion in 4Q08; full Sullivan Compal:
year 2008, worldwide server revenue Japan’s PC shipments fell 18.7% Y/Y to • and Ju Teng formed a magnesium-
declined 3.3% toUS $53.3 billion, and 601,000 units in January. —JEITA aluminum alloy and plastic chassis JV,
worldwide unit shipments grew 2.0% Taiwan: Compal Precision Module, in Nanjing,
to 8.1 million units. —IDC • Handset shipments to decline 21.1% to China.
• Smartphone sales are expected to in- 84.2 million units in 2009. —Digitimes • Communications regained Motorola’s
crease 0.8% by volume to 180 million Research. low-cost ODM handset orders.
units in 2009. —Nomura Securities of • Shipped 34.82 million notebook PCs Crystalaid Manufacture (Brisbane, Austra-
Japan in 4Q’08, up 23% Y/Y. —IDC Taiwan lia) selected Valor’s vPlan for CAD to SMT
• Smartphone shipments worldwide are USA: solutions.
projected to grow 13% in 2009 to 164 • Businesses spentUS $264.2 billion CTS Electronics Manufacturing received a
million units. —Forward Concepts on information and communication manufacturing contract for multiple com-
• TV shipments fell more than 5% Y/Y technology equipment and computer plex electronic assemblies for the A3 Brad-
in Q4’08 to 57.7M units and revenues software in 2007, a 4.4% increase over ley Fighting Vehicle from BAE Systems.
posted the first annual decline in a 2006. —U.S. Census Bureau DCI purchased a DEK Horizon 03i fully
given quarter, falling 3% Y/Y. —The • Digital camera sales fell 12% to 15 mil- automatic screen printing system.
NPD Group lion units in 4Q’08; full year sales rose Distron (Attleboro Falls, Massachusetts)
China: 6% to 38 million units. —IDC promoted Michael Hayes to VP of quality
• Handset production is expected to • Video game hardware sales reachedUS & engineering and Don Petry to VP of
drop 15.8% in 2009. —CSIA $445.4 million in January, a 17% y/y sales and marketing.
• IT spending is expected to grow 11% increase; 679,200 Nintendo Wii and EB will close its Turku, Finland, facility by
Y/Y toUS $51.2 billion in 2009. 510,800 Nintendo handheld DS units the end of September 2009.
—Springboard Research were sold, followed by 309,000 Xbox EDC acquired Fabec.
• Manufactured approximately 750 mil- 360s and 203,200 PlayStation 3 gam- Efore cut 30 personnel in Finland.
lion handsets in 2008 with an annual ing machines. —NPD Elcoteq:
growth rate of 8.6%. —CCID Consult- • celebrated the 10th anniversaries of its
ing eMs, oDM & related assembly Dongguan high-volume manufacturing
• Exceeded U.S. in auto sales in January; activity plant and its Hong Kong management
Chinese consumers bought 790,000 ve- Arima Communications is building hand- support office in China.
hicles in January while U.S. consumers set plant in Brazil with an initial capacity • laid-off 400 in Arad, Western Roma-
purchased 657,000 automobiles. —GM of 100,000 units/month. nia; 385 in Tallinn, Estonia, and 30 in
and Autodata Corp. Asustek Computer laid-off 460 workers Finland.
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